Asus P5WD2 Premium

Review @ AnandTech

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Sitting at the top of the Asus motherboard product line, the P5WD2 Premium and the P5ND2-SLI Deluxe must be considered to be the "crème-de-la-crème" of the extensive Asus product line. Either board will satisfy the computer enthusiast looking for the best home for their new Intel processor. Both boards fully support Pentium D dual-core processors; in fact, both boards handle any currently available Socket 775 processor from Intel. Both boards handle DDR2-667 and DDR2-800 at the fastest timings that we have tested at these memory speeds. The performance of both boards at these 2 memory speeds is also so close that it is hard to pick a performance champion between the two boards.

[...] For those looking for top-notch on-board audio, the 955X-based P5WD2 is the clear winner with full support for High Definition Azalia audio. The nF4-SLI Intel by comparison relies on a much more limited AC '97 codec.

In the storage area, both boards offer outstanding capabilities with SATA II, flexible RAID options and NCQ support. Here, the excellent Intel Matrix RAID is countered by the NVIDIA "any-drive" RAID. In tests of the NCQ performance of both drives in the dual-core shootout, the NVIDIA chipset performed a bit better than the Intel 955x. So, that tilts the storage scales a bit toward the P5ND2-SLI Deluxe if storage is your primary concern.

Memory performance at the top is also a concern for many users, and in that arena, the Intel 955x-based Asus P5WD2 Premium is the clear winner. The P5WD2 is the first production board that we have tested to offer a DDR1066 ratio, which will work at standard stock speeds. As we saw in this review, the P5WD2 also managed to reach 1066 memory speed at stock CPU speed on a 1066FSB CPU with Corsair DDR2-667 low latency memory (CM2X512A-5400UL). This is the first time that any memory has ever performed at DDR2-1066 in our motherboard or memory testing. OCZ also reached similar bandwidth levels at DDR2-1000 at tighter memory timings, but the 1066 crown belongs for now to Corsair and Asus.

was mir daugt is das jetzt alle neueren chipsetzt raid 5 unterstützung bieten

bei intel is ja noch genialer als bei NF4 miten matrix raid, wenns solche ähnlichen futers fürs amd prozies geben würd wär mein nächstes system 100% a AMD sys